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Causal Attribution and Social Judgment. Back to construal. Misunderstandings across genders—the case of unwanted sexual advances. Back to construal. Misunderstandings across cultures—the Hainan island incident-- collision of Chinese and US jets in 2001. Apology diplomacy

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The tombstone of Baruch Goldstein which describes him as “murdered as a martyr of God”. On the 25th of February, 1994 Goldstein died while killing 29 Muslims at prayer, and injuring 60 others, in the “Cave of the Patriarchs”, a site holy to both Muslims and Jews located in Hebron, the West Bank

P=.04

P=.09

10-Nation BBC Survey of Religious Beliefs

Mexico (Catholic)

Great Britain (Protestant)

Russia (Orthodox)

India (Hindu)

Indonesia (Muslim)

Israel (Jewish)

4704participants

52.7% female

age 18 to over 55

Variation in SES & income

Major religious groups

Joint agreement with:

1) “ I am willing to die for my God (beliefs)”

2) “I blame other religions for the problems of the world”

Controls: age, sex,

SES, education,

human dev index

Odds of supporting combative martyrdom

Attributional Biases

Fundamental attribution error:explanations

Perceptual:

Cognitive:

Motivational:

Cultural:

Cultural differences in causal attributions

Sports articles: US newspapers, more dispositional attributions

Hong Kong newspapers, more situational attributions

Cultural differences disappeared for editorials

Lee, Hallahan, & Herzog, 1996

The dilemma of the innocent victim

JWB allows individuals to maintain a sense of purpose and control—bad things couldn’t happen to me